Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-04
GRATIS OF PUBLIC MEN.
odd characteristics OF some OF the
Members of Congress.

nd ChapaCtcrlStiCs Oh sumo Va o'
Members of Congress-.
- tho House and Senate the manners
"a methods OF different men are very
~oti,oahle. and it is the same with men
ooornving positions of Importance In
o,nar departments OF the government. In
tho congressional branches, for instance,
:. somatimes. but very rarely, happens
.nat man OF real ability as debaters and
soarors seldom have anything to say
p,or tho floor except to the small extent
RAT ia absolutely necessary, sucn as IN
troduciug bills or reporting committee
work which they do in the most perfume
tory manner. Representatives, Clements,
" Georgia. and Stewart, or vermont, are
e =. snch men IN the House, says WASH
;,'cton latter to thu Kansas City Times,
inh ms senator Chace OF Rhode Island Is q
80 good example in the Senate. Mr..
rIaments has not been returned to the
DaXt House principally because OF this
oeculIaritv OF silence, for he comes from
q aactiop of the country where the people
Sesire to hear from the men whom they
have chosen for puDllc prelerhe ht'
Win regard to Mr.. Stewart 1t is different.
Tho neonle of Vermont are not as par
ticuIar about oratory as they are about
hnsiness. Stewart, who was once GOV
ornor of the State, and who is one
~ her best office lawyers, looks
oftar the interests of his people
and saws nothing that he IS
not obliged to say. he Is one OF the very
few men in Congress who SAY nothing,
hut saw wood" He will be In the
Fiftleth Congress.
Quaker. and like all of that industrious
and admirable sect, IS opposed to warfare.
He ia also like his fellow Quakers in that
ha ia usually man of silence, but he Is
sometImes heard from, aud always to the
advantage of the listeners. He is one of
those wealthy men in public life with
whom "boodle" is never associated. he
u not an orator, but plain and incislve
Hstatisto OF facts. Then he rivals Mr..
Salisbury Of Delaware as the champion
floor PAGER OF the Senate. In private con-
yersation he has a picturesque way OF
expressing himself. A day or two ago
IN the Senate cloak room the subject OF
discussion was the much needed coast
defenses. Mr.. Chace was present when
a certain Senator remarked that he did
mt suupose the Rhode Island Senator,
because of his faith, would be willing to
vote any money for even defensive pur-
poses. Mir. Chace did not reply directly,
but what be SAID was: "In the old Co.
iority in what we would now call the
PENNSYLVANIA Legislature. 1t was neces.
sary to prepare for defense against the
Indians. The QuaKers did not vote any
money for warlke purposes, but they did
provide literally for the purchase OF
small grains"
1.-THE grains of powder used In the arms
Of those days." he added with one of his
shrewd smiles, "were small, and they
we're purchased from that Quaker
appropriation" From this 1t is pretty
evident that the Rhode Island Senator
would be willing to vote for an appro-
priation for even large grains, should it
become necessary.
Senator Morrill,, of Vermont, is tall,
gaunt and dry in appearance, To the
average audience he would be dry in his
utterances, for his popularity is the
tariff, aud he seldom addresses the Senate
on any subject. But to many, tariff
discussions, even when they run largely
to ''fggers," are not dull, and thus the
venerable and kindly old Senator from
Vermont is always assured of en- audi
ence. He seems to have made the tariff
| the main study of his life. In this he has
been greatly assisted by remarkable
memory. The vast number OF figures
that he carries in his head is some hing
appalling. and his memory of faces and
names is equally remarkable.
Mr.. Blaine is generally supposed to be
the public man of the present day who
enjoys a monopoly of recalling faces and
names, but Senator Morrill, can give him
points and beat him. For instance, early
In the late war Vermont soldier was
killed on the Potomac, just below Wash
lngton. His brother saw Mr.. Morrill,
and asked him to aid him in passing the
lines In order to secure the dead mans
body and take it homo for burial. He
obtained the assistance and secured the
body, which was taken back to the green
hills o. Vermont. A short time ago this
man was in Washington, and, calling on
senator Morrill,, asked him If he knew
who his visitor was. Mr.. Morrill, prompt
" replied: "YOu are Mr.. Could" and
mentioned when he had before met him
and for what purpose.
Colonel Morrison of Illinois is perhaps
well known as any public man in the
country. His name, like that of Senator
Morrill, Immediately suggests the tariff.
uls by his attitude upon that subject
mat Mr.. Morrison has become so we'll
known. In order to impress himself
upon contemporaneous history. he was
compelled to select some one thing as the
great OBJECT OF his aim, for he has by no
means what Shakespeare calls 'Intinite
Ariety." He has poor voice and but
ntlle command OF language when upon
me moor, but he has great persistenoy-
many would call 1t obstinacy-and is a
slayer" He has stayed by his tariff and
sat up with 1t at nights so often that he
uas achieved by no means contracted
equation as statesman, although
Se'eat mas so often been his portion. II
Us nad not "tackled" the tariff he would
saye been only known as an every
SSy member of Congress and an exceed
uSy good story teller.
H. sunset Cox fs the opposite of Morrison.
n ns variety is infinite, and custom can
az. stale or age wither it. He is an all
IL iU o1I member Of Congress, whose wit
~0 TIIen as breezy as that of the untram-
g ro". west and as irresistible; yet 1t is
tnrvguenlly as delicate as the finest
tS Sornes OF the old masters. He is, never
IVA man of good "horee sense"
tb no can intelligently handle any subject
bsso,,GI comes up before Congress. HIS
n evo. SIN is his intense vanity and
so r's, ending selhshness. All of his as
con 'a n In Congress applaud his wit and
too amend vnm his brains, but they know him